Sonos connect amp input11/10/2023 ![]() ![]() The record player itself can sit front and centre. It’s just one small unit, about the size of two tissue boxes, that combined with the preamp can just be kept out of the way. ![]() You’re always gonna want to turn up or down and mute via buttons on the box. Though most of the Sonos functions are driven by the apps, the front of the Connect:Amp has just the right amount of hardware controls. By the way, it’s really satisfying to lay the needle down and have a record crackle to life. The Sonos auto-detects a line-in connection, and is good to go immediately. Once you’ve got that all plugged in, you’re all set. I’ve never had an amp with them before they’re quite nice! You just push down on them and they expose a hole, which you slide the exposed speaker wire into. The speaker connections are actually spring-binding posts, which means you don’t have to futz around with Banana plugs or the like to plug in your speakers. I’m using wireless, because my router is a fair distance away from the box. The dual ethernet ports allow this box to function like a 2-port 10/100Mbps switch, so you can passthrough a wired connection if that’s your thing. The record player plugs (via RCA plugs) into the phono preamp, and the preamp plugs into the Sonos. The Sonos Connect:Amp has 2 analogue inputs on the back. It’s up to you to decide how you take that chain and assemble it.Īs an example, you could pick up a Pro-Ject Debut Carbon DC Phono USB, which is both the record player, and the phono preamp bundled together. Here’s the rub: these separate components can be bundled together in a variety of configurations. Record Player -> Phono Preamp -> Sonos Connect -> Stereo Amp -> Speakers I found this beginner level guide to these setups very helpful.Īdd in a Sonos Connect, and the chain looks like this: Turns out, a turntable produces a phono output level signal, which you need to convert to a line level signal before it works with a stereo. You probably know what every part of that is except for the Phono Preamp (I didn’t). Record Player -> Phono Preamp -> Stereo Amp -> Speakers See, every record player setup looks roughly like this: Once I decided this was what I wanted, I needed to figure out which bits go together to make this work. It’s the dream that was only previously achievable by wiring up a house with crazy-long speaker cable runs and complex input switching. In 2015 though, we can ditch the wires, and do the inputs with a phone app. Put on a record in one room, listen to it in any room. In other words? They allow a record player to speak Sonos. However, the Sonos Connect and Connect:Amp are two special Sonos boxes which fulfil a very specific purpose in the chain - they allow you to translate a music input to become a Sonos-friendly source. A Sonos speaker (like a Play:1, Play:3 or what have you) starts playing it. So most Sonos speakers are fed music, and output it, right? Pick Spotify song in the Sonos app, hit play. I’m not gonna dig right into the whole thing, but trust me, it’s great. You can walk through your house and have all your speakers playing the same thing. It’s the speaker ecosystem that does multi-room, multi-service wireless music streaming. If you’ve looked at a multi-room speakers before, you’ve definitely heard of Sonos. Liner notes! Jack White special edition Lazaretto with secret tracks under the label! Old and new record players, and 2-sided albums that require flipping halfway through. Buying physical albums of their favourite records. Toward vinyl, and back toward a more analogue and deliberate approach to their music. However, I also noticed that a few people were starting to go in the other direction. It was instant gratification: we could listen to (mostly) whatever we wanted, whenever we wanted! The ease of streaming music made us all feel pretty good. Now, you and I both know that this once-treasured collection of files has been gathering the digital equivalent of dust in the last 2 years, because you got Spotify. A motley collection of MP3s and AACs of varying quality, cribbed from around the web and usually loosely assembled in iTunes. How do you get these two to play along together nicely?Īs nerds, we’ve all had digital music collections for a few years now. Of course, I didn’t want to give up the streaming services I wanted the 2 modes of music to live together in harmony. Start a bit of a vinyl collection of the albums I really loved. Pull out a small handful of records I’d acquired over the years, and get them cranking. A couple of months ago, I got it in my head that I’d find an old record player for my apartment. ![]()
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